Streaming technologies enable viewers to experience audio and video over the World Wide Web. The viewer needs a player, which normally is a plug-in that comes bundled with a web browser, such as QuickTime, Windows Media or RealVideo, or it can be downloaded directly from those sites and installed on your computer. In the early days of the web, audio and video files were downloaded onto your hard drive and then viewed once the entire file rested on your computer. With streaming, the file is not downloaded, and you cannot save it or make a copy of it.
Enterprise Networking acquired a Mediasite Server and portable recorder in June 2006. The Mediasite product captures audio, video, and slides in an easy to publish streaming media format, both live and on-demand. The content can be distributed on the server or published to a CD. The media is presented in a player that works across browser types and requires no plug-ins. An example can be found at: http://mediasite.jhu.edu/ http://mediasite.jhu.edu/JHU/Viewer?peid=5dc3e0fd-35d7-40c9-94ba-0b0b7d1e2c89 Enterprising Networking supports the server. For more information and to reserve the equipment please contact Steve Frantz at srf@jhu.edu. A central storage server was developed and implemented by Enterprise Services in 2005. Departments participating pay a set fee each year for space to store streaming media files that can be accessed through the Akamai streaming media service or from departmental streaming media servers. For more information please contact Steve Frantz at srf@jhu.edu. Enterprise Services recently contracted with Akamai to provide streaming media service for Johns Hopkins. This service enables Hopkins centers to serve streaming media from Akamai's global servers. This reduces the overhead on the Hopkins bandwidth and allows for better delivery to end users. The media can be stored on Akamai servers (10GB for all of Hopkins; additional space is available for a fee). The other option is storing the media on a local HTTP server and caching it to the Akamai network. This option does not require any streaming server software on the local HTTP server. Views subsequent to the initial call are served from the Akamai network | 
